Skype the VOIP player has demanded that India remove all rigid application-specific licensing requirements for internet service providers and replace them with a light-touch regulatory regime.

Right now, India does not allow internet telephony from PC to telephones within the country. The government has not issued fresh ISP licences since June 2006 as it feels that ISPs are indulging in illegal internet telephony. More than 50 ISP applications are pending with the Department of Telecom (DoT).

MicroSoft India and US-based Verizon Business have also asked India to lift the existing restrictions on ISPs, especially with regard to internet telephony. In fact, Microsoft has also told Trai that the ban of ISPs connecting to public switched telephone network stifles innovation of technology and deployment of new services to Indian customers.

I feel sooner or later TRAI would have to give in as technology would hav its own way of perpetuating anyway. so by giving it due recognition Trai would only do whats unavoidable in anycase.

(Source - Economic Times)

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